Sentence examples for mundane compared from inspiring English sources

Proponents of figures said they developed fine edge control, balance, and footwork, while critics thought them boring and mundane, compared with the athleticism and beauty of freestyle skating.

A Combative Campaign The actual campaign was fairly mundane, compared with the sideshow that Mr. Santorum's activities and comments had provided.

So, too, will the inevitable TV show from Martha, synergistically adding baseball to her multiheaded empire of crafts, entertainment, gardening and gracious living: "For those watching at home this morning, we'll be making Gaylord Perry's old-country recipe of slippery elm!" Yet all these changes are mundane compared with the larger mission that Martha brings to the Mets.

Some of the plot revelations toward the play's end (what happened to Bartholomew's mother, for instance, and the whereabouts of the big financial haul from a long-ago bank robbery) seem a bit mundane, compared with the clever unfoldings in Act I, and, after a snappy pace, the denouement seems to slow to a crawl.

But of course these discomforts are mundane compared to the dangers of going down over IS-controlled territory, as a Jordanian pilot recently did, or crashing during carrier operations.

This year's crop is decidedly mundane compared to years past, which is another sign of the economy.

— seems mundane when compared with the delicacy and rigor of the performances themselves.

It's Brecht by way of David Merrick, and Mendes's point that the characters are always performing? that all their world is a stage?—seems mundane when compared with the delicacy and rigor of the performances themselves.

With their juxtaposition of the cosmic and the mundane, the Russian meteor videos reminded me of Tolstoy's description, in "War and Peace," of the comet of 1812: Only looking up at the sky did Pierre cease to feel how sordid and humiliating were all mundane things compared with the heights to which his soul had just been raised….

This story line may seem dramatically mundane when compared to the ruined Chicago of Divergent or the scarred Appalachia of The Hunger Games, and yet these stories work well, perhaps even better, in these imagined and depressing landscapes.

It is a mundane tale, really, compared with all that is happening here, and yet in a small way it is important.